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circa 1865

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of a military commission]

Photograph enclosed in a letter from Lew Wallace to A. E. Allen. The letter (GLC07740.01) identifies the individuals in the portrait as (from left to right) General Thomas M. Harris, General David O. Hunter, General Augustine V. Kautz, Brevet Brigadier General James A. Ekin, General Lew Wallace, Mr. John Armor Bingham, General Albion P. Howe, Brevet Colonel Charles H. Tomkins, General Joseph Holt, Mr. Henry Lawrence Burnett, and General Robert Sanford Foster. The photograph is mounted on board along with the letter and four newspaper clippings. The extent described is that of the actual…

GLC07740.02

1862/05/21

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Endorsement on 3 p. Thomas Breck ALS to Charles Sumner re: leniency for soldier

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 228

GLC07742

1865/04/15

Bradford, Peleg, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to C.C. McPherson re: Washington, D.C. after Lincoln's assassination

GLC07745

1865/05/29

Doherty, Edward P., fl. 1865

Autograph letter

Title: to Lorenzo P. Thomas re: four accounts of capture of Herold and death of Booth

Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."

GLC07747.01

1865/05/22

McQuade, William, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.02

1865/05/22

Ryan, John, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.03

1865/05/22

Hoyt, Godfrey, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.04

1865/05/22

Baker, David, fl. 1865

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

Discusses "the rights of master and the interests of the slave."

GLC07747.05

1892

Kurz & Allison

Title: The Fort Pillow Massacre.

Depicts the April 1864 battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in which witnesses reported that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest violated the conduct of war by killing unarmed and surrendered soldiers. Underneath the print, text indicates that Union forces were led by Majors William F. Bradford and Lionel F. Booth (who was killed during the battle). Portrays Confederate soldiers killing African American soldiers, women, and children. In the center of the print, Forrest hoists the Confederate flag. For an extensive eyewitness account of the battle, please refer to GLC05080.01.

GLC07727

1878

Newell, J. Perry, fl. 1858-1866

Title: The Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore O.H. Perry's Victory.

Printed by J.H. Bufford's Sons in Boston, Massachusetts. Lithograph depicting the 10 September 1813 Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The names of the ships depicted appear along the bottom.

GLC07728

1804 ca.

Tripoli, fl. 1804

Title: Blowing Up the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Sommers...

[Title continued] "by the American Squadron under Commodore Edward Preble." Hand-colored copper-plate engraving by John Guerrazzi, London.

GLC07729

1805

Guerrazzi, John, fl. 1805

Title: The attack made on Tripoli on the 3d. August 1804...

GLC07730

circa 1882

Object

Title: ["Any holder but a Slave holder" potholder]

Based on the accompanying letter (GLC 7731.01), created by Miss Lena, who gave the potholder to Frederick Douglass as a gift after reading his narrative. Depicts two African Americans (one male and one female) holding hands and dancing against a caramel colored background. Text is stitched above and below the dancing figures. Appears to be a form of needlepoint stitching.

GLC07731.02

5 April 1825-1828

Harrison, Mary S., 1809-1842

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Keepsake book of Mary Harrison]

Signed on first page. Book of poetry, some written out by Harrison, some addressed to or for Miss Mary S. Harrison, written by friends. There are dried leaves pressed between some pages. Mary Harrison was the daughter of President William Henry Harrison and Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison.

GLC07732.02

April 14, 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of John Howard's livery & sale stables]

Inscribed on verso: "the livery stable from which the horse was hired that Booth ran away after shooting President Lincoln April 14, 1865." Also includes #7767 and a stamp for Kemp, Photographers, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07736

April 1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of asassination sympathizers]

Image of seventeen men lined up outdoors, ten of with are carrying placards around their necks that read "assassin sympathizer." The ten men are in the custody of armed soldiers. The photograph is mounted on a sheet of construction paper.

GLC07737

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln assassination conspirators]

Nine large plate albumen prints of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Secret Service head Colonel Lafayette C. Baker selected Gardner to take the photographs of the conspirators while in they were in custody, awaiting trial aboard the U.S.S. Montauk and the U.S.S. Saugus. Decimalized, GLC07738.01-.09

GLC07738

1865-1880's ca.

Various

Photograph

Title: [Five cartes de visite and one miniature albumen portrait of Lincoln]

Includes photos by Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady, and Anthony Berger. Four of the photographs are from engravings. Miniature portrait measures 2.5 x 1.8 cm.

GLC07739

3 March 1895

Wallace, Lewis, 1827-1905

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. E. Allen

Apologizes for the delay of the photograph. States that assassination trial was "perfect in every respect." Provides the name of the officers that tried the Lincoln conspirators. The list of names accompanies a photograph that has been pasted on a piece of board along with the letter (GLC07740.02). The letter is also accompanied by three newspaper clippings entitled: "Was Mary Surrat guilty?", "He might have hanged", and "Gen. Holt dead." A short biography on Lewis Wallace is pasted adjacent to the photograph. The extent given is that of the board on which various pieces are pasted on.

GLC07740.01